We investigate how industry characteristics influence the sources of merger financing across industries and over time. ► There is considerable variation across industries regarding the impact of levels of free cash flow, financial leverage, equity overvaluation, and target value information asymmetry, on...
There is always going to be a bit of a mystery around a rescue animal than if you adopt a kitten from a breeder. You don’t know what they have previously experienced, like if they have been abused or had a previous home at all. Nor can you know their exact age. So, how can yo...
For these reasons, in this study, we investigate travel behavior in the post COVID-19 period with a focus on customized bus services to guide policies on sustainable travel behavior. The survey data were collected in the post COVID-19 period and the travel attributes were obtained from a ...
some adolescents had missing data at age 14, and others had just incidentally missing items at age 14 and/or 17. Details can be found in Additional file IV of Fritz et al.18. Overall, missingness on the RFs and general distress could to some degree be...
In opening up this discussion on expertise, our target audience is the many researchers who investigate complex societal and environmental problems and who are interested in the integration and implementation role. We want to kick-start a process of understanding and building expertise in research inte...
This information can be explored and used to empower forums, given that this teaching tool needs to be adapted to meet the needs of the new generation. More research is also needed to investigate how to overcome the difficulties, to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies in different ...
Ignoring tenants' perspectives can raise barriers between the design of the technical and physical systems and how these systems are understood and operated by the people depending on them. There is a need to investigate how tenants perceive the IEQ in their dwellings, how they reason about their...
Our study underscored the importance of contextual variation for the interpretation of clinical trial findings. Further research should investigate the range and magnitude of contextual effects on trial outcomes through meta-analyses of large sets of clinical trials. For this to be possible, clinical tr...
but also rank them. Such a method can be applied to networks from any domain, and we apply it in two heterogeneous cases: a temporal network of technology transfer and a protein-protein interaction network. Together with the relevance of node metadata, we investigate the redundancy of these me...
were collected through an Application Programming Interface. Contents of the tweets were analysed. The personal characteristics, features of tweets and types of Twitter users were collected to investigate their associations with whether a person can be found within a month. Logistic regression was used...